Thoughts of intrinsic values.

Intrinsic value is a source of a meaning, importance, purpose, and goodness. Rationally thinking, helping people to attain pleasure and avoid pain as our mind set pleasure is intrinsically good and pain is intrinsically bad. 


How can you tell whether something has intrinsic value or not?
This is a conceptual question, for we cannot be sure that something has intrinsic value unless we understand what it is for something to have intrinsic value. Some may understand through experience, some may understand through observation. It makes sense that we care for other people. It is absurd not to. Unless you are a cold-blooded witch who thinks the world revolve around you. To act like one’s own pleasure matters, but no one else’s pleasure matters is a strange denial of intrinsic value.

No answer seems to completely satisfy when it comes to why God allows pain. You may wrestled with this question, only to come up with answers that scarcely fill the soul’s void. Instead of keep questioning, why not start helping? Some people may not have the opportunity to save lives and so on. Still, we should do what we can to help people avoid intrinsically bad things, like pain. That’s the main idea behind morality.

So here I am, asking you people to do good. I'm no angel. I'm just a normal human being. Begging for a change and a better world. 

You might want to take a look these essays, “How to Become Moral” and “Moral Beliefs Can’t Motivate.” Another source from Stamford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.